How Did I Become A Writer?

It will be a double blog day. 

I'm honestly loving writing blogs instead of posting video's of myself. 

I do get asked this question a lot especially from Promoters, Book marketers, Readers, and fellow Authors. I'm bombarded daily with my career since releasing more content. What can say an Author with 30 books is a huge achievement. 

What really began my writing journey? Poetry. I met my ex best friend Sheila (Tobias) Jarrett through AllPoetry. I didn't know how to write Poetry well to be honest. I still don't to be fair. My Poetry book that I've shared with the world isn't the most glamourous of my world of works. It shows truth behind who I am and what made me write to begin with. 

When did stories come into play? Honest answer after moving to StoryWrite is where I began writing my book Clinging To Love, my Dad encouraged me to write short stories at first. So, I would write a bunch of small stories and had reached readers. It was my real taste of writing lesbian stories to express myself more freely. 

What made me explore out of StoryWrite? When I heard about Wattpad, that site back in the early days really blew me away. I didn't have to write for any certain audience but I did. Wattpad was really the start of writing longer books. I still preferred shorter stories which is why I have so many. 

What made me Publish? Honestly, to face my fear of the what ifs? I was really debating if I'd ever be good enough. I did make myself good enough. I fought those that hated my books and kept going. I'm still writing to this day. If it weren't for my best friend Will telling me that I could self-publish I would still be hiding on Wattpad and trying to find my audience. 

Do I have regrets? Daily. My biggest regret is letting those bully me into not completing Series' that never got to be finished cause I wasn't good enough in anyone's eyes or least those that took a hit on me personally. It wasn't just my spelling and grammar. It was more getting me out of the world and back into hiding. I tried going under a pen name to be called out and to be honest, I'm still scared to go under a pen name because of all the hate that I had to endure. 

Where is my mindset today? Just keep writing. Keep bringing out new content. Keep being the Author that the world can see through a blind eye. I don't ever plan to give up, I did that once back in October 2022, only to be back in the spotlight because no one wanted to see me disappear from something that I love doing. 

Being an Author is a dream come true. I'm successful in this world that I'm accepted with my own Author Tribe with Ashley Mohler aka Ashes. Ashes has become the bestest best friend that I could have. She makes me be seen when others rather push me aside. I don't exist in certain groups in the Author Community but you know, I'm here and pushing through. I will always keep writing those stories that people need them.